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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN KENDRIOK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

DRESS-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,078, dated July 11, 1893.

Application filed January 2l, 1893. Serial No. l$59,099. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KENDRICK, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Stays; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in dress-stays and more especially to that class of dress-stays composed of bone, steel, wire or other stiffening material introduced between two thicknesses of cloth with the ends of the stay covered and protected by and finished with a cloth or leather tip, or composed of one or more strips of such stilfening material introduced into woven single or double-pocket casings with cloth or leather tips.

The object of my invention is to provide a stay that is adapted to be sewed to the seams of a dress, waist or garment at the extreme corners of the stay; that is consequently not only more easily and quickly sewed to the seams but whereby the work is rendered better and neater, the attachment being almost invisible.

- With this object in View, I have devised the stay illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein-- Figure lis a side elevation of a single pocket stay with leather or cloth tips. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a double pocket stay with tips, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a double pocket stay without tips, portions being in section in each figure to more clearly show the construction. Fig. 4 is a transverse section on line 4.-4, Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5, Fig. l, and Fig. 6 a section on line 6-6, Fig. 2, Figs. 4, 5 and 6 being enlarged to more clearly show the construction.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the casing into which the strips of stiffening material, B,-bone, steel, wire, or whatever it may be,-are introduced in any suitable manner, casing A, that is of anyl suitable woven `fabric or material, having one or more pockets a for receiving the stiffening material. The ends l of the stays may be protected by cloth or leather tips, C, as 4shown in Figs. l, 2, 4 and 5, the tips embracing the ends of the stays and being' secured to the sides of the staysin any suitable manner. Eyelets, D, are inserted or provided vat the edges of the ends of the stiffening material for preventing the stiifening material from working endwise through the ends of the inclosing pocket, but my invention consists particularly in the location of said eyelets, as shown, in the eXtreme corners of the ends of the stay, where they perform a more important function than that already indicated, as will presently appear. By the construction just described, in attaching the stay to the seam of the garment the needle does not penetrate any thickness of material in the stay-ends, the thread beingpassed by the needle through the eyelets and overcast onto the edge of the seam of the garment, making a very quick and neat attachment Without difficulty or liability of the needle being broken as is not infrequently the case in making attachments by sewing through cloth or leather ends of two or more thicknesses.

I am aware that single eyelets have been placed in the center of the ends of cloth or woven casing stays, but I am not aware that any stay has ever been constructed with two eyelets placed at the corners of the tips or ends of the stay, as by me described and shown.

`An invaluable feature of my invention consists in the neater attachment, it aords, of the stay to the seam of the garment, the attaching thread being rendered almost invisible.

In stays where the single eyelet is placed in the middle of the ends, it is more difficult to pass the needle through the eyelet and the attaching thread shows too plainly and, when applied by an inexperienced or careless worker, will be lumpy, and cause additional thickness of material at the ends where it is most necessary and desirable to have as little thickness as possible, it being desirable to have smooth ends so as not to show humps or ridges on the outside of the dress, waist or garment when worn. In case of a double pocket stay with cloth or leather tips, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6, the tips are preferably not only secured in the usual manner, but also by means of an eyelet G at the inner edge of the central por- IOO tion of the tip between the strips of stiiening material in the pockets of the casing of the stay, thereby preventing said edges of the tips from becoming loose and curling up.

W'hat I claim is- 1. A dress stay consisting of a stiffener, and a casing therefor, said easing provided with an eyelet in each outer corner at the edge of the stiiener, substantially as set forth.

2. A dress stay composed of a casing having two pockets, a stiiener inserted in each of the pockets, flexible tips embracing each end of the casing, said tips each having three JOHN KENDRICK.

IVitnesses:

C. I-I. Donne., WARD HOOVER. 

